On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Andy Lee <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jul 18, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Hamish Allan wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Andy Lee <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> What would you use for adjectives -- "owned" and "unowned"?
>>
>> How about "retained" and "unretained"? As in: "this method returns an
>> unretained object".
>
> Unfortunately, there's no such thing as an unretained object. When an
> object stops being retained, it gets dealloced.
True. The idea was to encourage the caller to think in terms of their
own responsibility towards that object rather than anyone else's. But
it might be confusing.
Hamish
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